As far as file-sharing protocols go, BitTorrent has emerged as one of the leading P2P technologies being used. μTorrent is one of the most popular BitTorrent apps around, largely because of its small size and ease of use. While μTorrent used to be an independent client, it has since been taken over by BitTorrent Inc. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Fight Piracy by silencing part of a movie ?
Paramount apparently decided that it would be a great idea to deter and track piracy by silencing random parts of the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This seems to be a sort of watermarking technique to be able to identify the cinema the copy of the movie was made.. if [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Downloading pirated films is stealing
Did you recently purchase a DVD in store ? If so you must have noticed this wonderful reminder at the beginning that can’t be skipped that downloading pirated films is stealing and a crime. I recently bought 24 season 4 on DVD which comes on seven DVDs and contains all the 24 episodes of this season.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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ZML is for movies what Allofmp3 was for music
The developers of the now defunct Allofmp3 website announced a new website called ZML – The Movie Library – that offers movies in three different versions for prices that will cause the concern of the MPAA. The lowest price for a full movie begins at $1.99 which is the version for iPods with a width of 320 pixels.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Battlestar Galactica Razor and other leaks
The soon to be released two hour special episode of Battlestar Galactica called Razor made its appearance on P2P networks almost three weeks before the movie start. American Gangster, the new Denzel Washington movie which debuted on 19 October was available eight days prior to its premiere.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Media Defender email leak
More than 6500 internal emails from anti-piracy company Mediadefender have been leaked on the Internet as one big Mailbox file that can be imported into email clients. Mails give in depth information about tactics that have been used to spread fake releases, fake edonkey servers and their opinion about several bittorrent clients.